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Startupmag is a UK media platform reporting daily on the startup ecosystem, with funding news, founder interviews and data-led market insights. We publish every UK startup funding round each day, and maintain one of the country's most comprehensive datasets of investors, founders and funded startups. Our coverage powers the Startupmag Investor Database, tracking more than 7,000 investors across stages, sectors and regions. We map the full UK ecosystem to help founders, analysts, and operators understand who’s building, who’s backing, and where capital is flowing.

Pure Data Centres Group

Pure is an innovation driven digital infrastructure organisation of industry leading experts in intelligent design, engineering, security, science, research, and sustainability. Headquartered in London (UK), with over 500MW of IT capacity live or under development, we develop and operate data centres for some of the world’s largest technology companies, across the UK, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. We believe in data centres for good; creating employment opportunities, using our resources to support local communities, and investing in environmental restoration. Pure is backed by leading financial institutions and managed by passionate leaders each with decades of specialist industry experience, focussed on delivering sustainable availability, everywhere we operate, every day, continuously.

IQE

IQE is the leading global supplier of advanced semiconductor wafers with products covering a diverse range of applications, supported by an innovative outsourced foundry services portfolio allowing the Group to provide a 'one stop shop' for the wafer needs of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers. IQE uses advanced crystal growth technology (epitaxy) to manufacture and supply bespoke semiconductor wafers ('epi-wafers') to major chip manufacturing companies, who use our wafers to make chips which form the key components of virtually all high technology systems. IQE is unique in being able to supply wafers using all the leading crystal growth technology platforms. with a manufacturing footprint across Europe, USA and Asia. IQE's products are found in many leading-edge consumer, communication, computing and industrial applications, including a complete range of wafer products for the wireless industry, such as mobile handsets and wireless infrastructure, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, base stations, GPS, and satellite communications; optical communications, optical storage (CD, DVD), laser optical mouse, laser printers & photocopiers, thermal imagers, leading-edge medical products, barcode, ultra high brightness LEDs, a variety of advanced silicon based systems and high efficiency concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar cells. IQE operates facilities in Cardiff (UK), Milton Keynes (UK), Bethlehem (PA, USA), Greensboro (NC, USA), Taunton (MA, USA) and Taiwan (Asia).

Slamcore

Slamcore delivers spatial intelligence that transforms material handling equipment into connected, safety-aware assets. Using vision-based SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) and spatial AI, our proprietary hardware and software provide real-time positioning, precise mapping, and pedestrian detection across warehouses and factories. The result is improved safety, fewer near-miss incidents, smoother material flow, and measurable efficiency gains. ?️ Slamcore Aware streams RTLS data from vehicles into dashboards and partner apps without costly infrastructure. ? Slamcore Alert, an add-on for Aware, provides visual and audio warnings when pedestrians enter a vehicle’s path, with no wearables or extra setup required. ?️ Slamcore Hub helps manage your full suite of Slamcore devices, integrating with analytics systems to scale operations effortlessly. We help operations teams, integrators, and OEMs unlock productivity, cut downtime, increase throughput, and elevate functional safety in intralogistics environments.

Geordie AI

AI Agents promise transformative benefits but effective adoption is impossible without the right controls, and existing tools can’t keep pace with autonomous behaviour. At Geordie, we help enterprises accelerate agentic innovation without unleashing risk - giving Security & IT teams an agent-native platform to understand agents, proactively mitigate exposure, and safely scale adoption. Our platform delivers posture management, observability, and contextual interventions. Turning blind spots into visibility and unmanaged exposure into governed outcomes. With Geordie, enterprises gain the confidence to adopt AI agents securely, responsibly, and at scale.